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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on April 06, 2014, 07:54:40 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/12491158
Oh my.
This might, or might not, explain why she's taking a Sabbatical from Skins's island.
cali (92,671 posts) Tue Apr 1, 2014, 07:27 PM
I am a lousy Buddhist and sometimes I hate meditation.
I also couldn't get through without it.
I took refuge vows almost 22 years ago and then bodhisattva vows a year or so after that at Karme Choling.
I used to be a runner and I mostly hated the getting ready to run and the first few minutes of running- and too often I never found the rhythm and grace of it. That's how I feel about meditating. I do it, some days for only 15 minutes, other days for much longer.
some days when I ran though, man they were great. I'd lope across down the field and through the woods down to the road and then loop back up the road to home.
I've been meditating for hours every day for the last couple of weeks. It's been hard and good and sucky and just what it is.
I wish I could do a dathun- a month long retreat again. That is a revelatory experience.
gtar100 (3,087 posts) Tue Apr 1, 2014, 11:29 PM
2. Dukkha.
Just that.
cali (92,671 posts) Wed Apr 2, 2014, 07:02 AM
3. no. just that
or more accurately not just that.
pangaia (2,575 posts) Wed Apr 2, 2014, 06:32 PM
4. You know, I was really glad to see what you have to say.
I have been meditating for.. well since 1968..
And still I find it the same as you say. It is what it is, and so is living.
cali (92,671 posts) Wed Apr 2, 2014, 06:57 PM
5. aw, I'm glad my dear. and be of good cheer. it is what is and it is what we we view it as
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Apparently Buddhism is okay with alcoholism and drug abuse.
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Apparently Buddhism is okay with alcoholism and drug abuse.
And is violently despondent over the prospect of declining abortion.
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If you have an outbreak of earwigs, you might be a buddist.
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Well, she *did* say she was lousy at it.
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Okay, I had to nadin all this Buddhist ooohing and aaawing.
A student who takes refuge may make vows to adhere to the Five Precepts (pañca-sila). Laypeople undertake at least one of the five, but traditions differ in how many vows are common to take. The Five Precepts are not commandments, such as "thou shalt not ...", but are promises to oneself: "I will (try) ..."
1.To refrain from harming living creatures (killing).
2.To refrain from taking that which is not given (stealing).
3.To refrain from sexual misconduct.
4.To refrain from false speech.
5.To refrain from intoxicants which lead to loss of mindfulness.
Yeah, it looks to me like dear old Eva might be having some problems with these vows.
The Bodhisattva vow is the vow taken by Mahayana Buddhists to attain complete enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings. One who has taken the vow is nominally known as a Bodhisattva. Whereas the PrÄtimoká¹£a vows cease at death, the Bodhisattva vow extends into future lives.
Originally known as "Tail of the Tiger", Karmê Chöling is a Shambhala Buddhist meditation retreat center and community in Barnet, Vermont .
Dathun is an important milestone in the path of the Shambhala warrior, and an invaluable experience for anyone interested in fundamentally making friends with who and what they are. For most people, it is the first extended program they attend that focuses mainly on meditation practice. What is dathun? Why would anyone take a month out of his or her life to explore sitting meditation?
Dathun is a month-long group meditation retreat.
Dukkha (PÄli; Sanskrit: duḥkha; Tibetan sdug bsngal) is a Buddhist term commonly translated as "suffering", "anxiety", "stress", or "unsatisfactoriness".
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Yeah, she's all dukkha-ed up alright.
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Well, she *did* say she was lousy at it.
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Maybe she's just lousy.
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Yeah, she's all dukkha-ed up alright.
More derpa-derpa then dukkha, I would think, but the Buddhist (D)Ummies should really just go full:
(http://ts1.mm.bing.net/th?id=HN.608055343580253353&pid=1.7)
Take one for the team.
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Yeah, she's all dukkha-ed up alright.
Buddhism teaches that suffering comes from unfulfilled desires.
I think it is safe to say cali is a dark, bitter and angry soul. Her every post is a profanity laden screed devoid of anything except venomous emotional reflex.
That she is in such a constant state of suffering only speaks to how much she desires what is not rightfully hers.
It is the perfect explanation of how liberals project their greed onto others.
Greed is, after all, desiring a thing you have not rightfully earned.
Liberals are greedy for other people's money in the form of welfare and they are miserable because the full extent of their desire is stymied by things like GOP "intransigence" and that pesky Constitution.
cali and her fellow Proglodytes validate everything Buddha described.
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I was a BUDist....at least I was for a few years. If I drank a beer, it was a BUD.
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I was a BUDist....at least I was for a few years. If I drank a beer, it was a BUD.
If you like Rap "music", what does that make you? :tongue:
:lmao:
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I can't judge Cali on this as I'm not much of a Buddhist myself.
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If you like Rap "music", what does that make you? :tongue:
:lmao:
A raptor?
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cali
I am a lousy Buddhist
You are a lousy Buddhist, earwig.
Meditate on this question: "What would the Dalai Lama think of the DUmp?"
The answer will change your life.
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You know, I'm not disparaging Buddhism, which given its sheer longevity, surely has to count as an important religion that's affected the lives of millions and millions of others.
What I am disparaging are those of European and African derivation converts to this southern Asian religion, which has no part in their own history or culture.....or understanding.
It's always struck me that domestic converts to eastern Asian religions are converts for strictly negative reasons; they wish to be rebels, they wish to be different, they wish to slap the predominant religion(s) of their own time and place in the face.
That's always a lousy reason to "convert;" to "get back at" other people.
There is no way a person of European or African derivation can possibly really understand and appreciate Buddhism; it's just too too too alien to their perceptions and values.
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It's always struck me that domestic converts to eastern Asian religions are converts for strictly negative reasons; they wish to be rebels, they wish to be different,
That's always a lousy reason to "convert;" to "get back at" other people.
EXACTLY.
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You know, I'm not disparaging Buddhism, which given its sheer longevity, surely has to count as an important religion that's affected the lives of millions and millions of others.
What I am disparaging are those of European and African derivation converts to this southern Asian religion, which has no part in their own history or culture.....or understanding.
It's always struck me that domestic converts to eastern Asian religions are converts for strictly negative reasons; they wish to be rebels, they wish to be different, they wish to slap the predominant religion(s) of their own time and place in the face.
That's always a lousy reason to "convert;" to "get back at" other people.
There is no way a person of European or African derivation can possibly really understand and appreciate Buddhism; it's just too too too alien to their perceptions and values.
But what about if that religion dovetails with a fascination with handing out flowers at the airport?
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There is no way a person of European or African derivation can possibly really understand and appreciate Buddhism; it's just too too too alien to their perceptions and values.
Americans convert to Buddhism because they think yoga pants are cute.
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Americans convert to Buddhism because they think yoga pants are cute.
Because it's important to remind the board what yoga pants look like:
(http://cdn.rsvlts.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/whats_not_to_love_about_yoga_pants_part_6_640_24.jpg)
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Buddhism:
(http://i883.photobucket.com/albums/ac32/gobucksnumbers/selter_zps264c5562.jpg)
This is an example of why DUmmy cali is a lousy Buddhist.
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Who said they were a BUDist ?
(http://media.photobucket.com/user/owlmirror/media/TRIUNE%20of%20MEN%20update%20-%20first%20crop%202010/TriuneofMENF1Indica-dominantpungent.jpg.html?filters[term]=marijuana%20buds&filters[primary]=images&filters[secondary]=videos&sort=1&o=22)
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Who said they were a BUDist ?
(http://media.photobucket.com/user/owlmirror/media/TRIUNE%20of%20MEN%20update%20-%20first%20crop%202010/TriuneofMENF1Indica-dominantpungent.jpg.html?filters[term]=marijuana%20buds&filters[primary]=images&filters[secondary]=videos&sort=1&o=22)
It was me but all I see is a racist black "X".....meanwhile, I'll be looking at the yoga pants until you get back to me. :drool:
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It was me but all I see is a racist black "X".....meanwhile, I'll be looking at the yoga pants until you get back to me. :drool:
Alrighty then let's try once more...
(http://0.tqn.com/d/alcoholism/1/0/6/v/1/marijuana13.jpg)
But the racist black X was a tenable subsitute.
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Alrighty then let's try once more...
(http://0.tqn.com/d/alcoholism/1/0/6/v/1/marijuana13.jpg)
But the racist black X was a tenable subsitute.
Jim Stafford does the Wildwood Weed song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyQi-1Z2tN8